The master repository for this work is located at: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/mescc-tools

pull requests can be made at https://github.com/oriansj/mescc-tools and https://gitlab.com/janneke/mescc-tools or patches/diffs can be sent via email to Jeremiah (at) pdp10 [dot] guru or join us on libera.chat's #bootstrappable

These are a collection of tools written for use in bootstrapping

A tool for generating ELF debug tables in M1-macro format from M1-macro assembly files

A tool for marking files as executable, for systems that don't have chmod

A tool for identifying what hardware architecture you are running on

A minimal shell script build tool that can be used for running shell scripts on systems that lack any shells.

The trivially bootstrappable linker that is designed to be introspectable by humans and should you so desire assemble hex programs that you write.

The universal Macro assembler that can target any reasonable hardware architecture.

With these tools on your system, you can always bootstrap real programs; even in the most catastrophic of situations, provided you keep your cool.